Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jumbo (words & music by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; Billy Rose, producer). Having announced the opening of his show every week since Labor Day, having postponed it ten consecutive times until at last he bought space in the newspapers to plead: "I'll be a dirty name if I'll open Jumbo until it's ready," last week minuscule Billy Rose finally presented in Manhattan's Hippodrome the spectacle that was supposed to be BIGGER THAN A SHOW, BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. First-nighters were provided with a scale by which to judge...
Outstripped for sheer bulk only by cinema extravaganza or the Big Top itself, Jumbo is a megalomaniac medley of musicomedy and circus, with the circus gaining a shade the advantage. In point of fact, however, Producer Rose was presenting a show not intrinsically different from the sort of production which made the old Hippodrome world-famed. What justified Jumbo's extravagant ballyhoo was the fact that Mr. Rose has added all the mechanical and artistic improvements which the U. S. Theatre has evolved in the 15 years since the old Hippodrome ceased to function. Where the old Hippodrome shows...
Shortly before the final whistle, the Crimson booters got their first break of the game when a Tuffs player fouled inside the penalty zone. Johansen then kicked a hard, tricky shot past the Jumbo goalie...
Included in the Jumbo record are a win over Malden High and defeats by Andover, Quincy High, Belmont High, Exeter...
Quite unclassifiable is Billy Rose's "Jumbo," which opens Saturday night and which Mr. Rose candidly confesses will probably run forever. And then there is always Columbus Circle, which presents some of the most impassioned and diversified soap box oratory west of Hyde Park. For Saturday matinee we recommend the pageant at the Palmer stadium, featuring the Harvard band...